Apollo 10's lunar module ("Snoopy") is still floating out there somewhere. Off topic, but this reminded me of that. Would LOVE to see that covered.

@MultiSteveB

7 жыл бұрын

trekguy66 Wait, what? I wonder if NASA or NORAD knows where it is?

@Chapter3Fan

7 жыл бұрын

would it have fitted in a shuttle to bring it back ?

@user-lv7ph7hs7l

7 жыл бұрын

The shuttle doesn´t have enough fuel to go beyond orbit so it wouldn´t be able to get close, nevermind get back. Concerning the size without the descent stage the LM would fit into the shuttle payload bay easily, actually you could fit about 9 Lunar Module ascent stages into the Shuttle payload bay by size and 6 if you go by the maximum mass the shuttle could bring back from orbit. So if you had another massive rocket (bigger than Saturn V) that would first rendezvous with "Snoopy" and then bring it into earth orbit, then yes the shuttle could bring it home.

@iamkurgan1126

5 жыл бұрын

Thats where nasa hid the original moon landing tapes lol.

@donaldhoot7741

2 жыл бұрын

Scott manley may have covered this search youtube

I wish this stuff was taught in schools. The Apollo program was an incredible national engineering and technological feat and achieved so much in such a short period of time.

That terminology is so confusing; I think NASA should APOLLOgize.

@michaeltuz608

7 жыл бұрын

Craig Mooring Was that really NASAssary?

@craigmooring2091

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe I should have stifled the urge ORBIT my tongue.

@AnonymousFreakYT

7 жыл бұрын

You people have such MERCURIAL senses of humor...

@CountArtha

7 жыл бұрын

. . . . Get out.

@ultimatesteve9647

7 жыл бұрын

All of these puns are making my (gemin)EYEs hurt.

Please tell me there won't be a quiz on this later.

@gasaholic47

7 жыл бұрын

...and it won't be open book..er, video...

@texasyojimbo

7 жыл бұрын

I'm so confused. It's almost like NASA is a government bureaucracy or something. =D

@Vector_Ze

6 жыл бұрын

Try her videos at 0.75x playback speed. I've enjoyed her videos a LOT more since I discovered this feature. She talks fast, and the editing compounds things by removing natural breath pauses...which would give your mind a moment to digest what was just said if left intact. She's far from the only one who uses this technique. It's very tiring to listen to, at least to this southern boy. I welcome the day when this chopped-spaghetti editing is no longer considered by some to be "cool". Or maybe she's just too aggressively cutting the bits where she goes to change her queue cards, LOL.

@turnermorgan1176

5 жыл бұрын

smart451cab I agree: I speak “Southern” not Millennial! Also, I like a pause now and then. I’ll try your 0.75x technique.

@plasmakilla1

3 жыл бұрын

@@turnermorgan1176 don't its trash

I love this series. I worked at Aviation Challenge (an offshoot of Space Camp) back in the 90s and am now learning things that even folks at the US Space and Rocket Center didn't know well. You are an amazing space historian.

4:50 ... yes please.

Well, yeah, this does answer the question, even if I don't fully understand it! Definitely gonna have to watch this one a few more times...

@IkeThe9th

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Tuz yeah, I had to watch twice. On my third run now.... with a pen. lol

You explained it beautifully. I was just a kid, but I remember Apollo 11 like it was yesterday. Where I lived, Neil went down the ladder at about 04 in the morning :)

Amy, great to see you back doing what you do best. Keep up the great work.

Hy Amy, I am an international fan of your work!!! Tahnk you so much for share spectacular content!!! Greetings from Brazil!!!

@racingmhf9157

3 жыл бұрын

me from brazil too!

@racingmhf9157

3 жыл бұрын

agora fui perceber que é o serjão!

Great explanation and thanks for addressing it. It's always enlightening to see what you portray and how you do it in such a great way.

Russian nomenclature sounds interesting...

@dextrovix3057

7 жыл бұрын

I agree. Amy always covers the Apollo topics in great detail, but I wonder how much she can uncover when it comes to Russian naming of Kosmos xxxx. NASA was so open being accountable to the public compared to Soviet secrets... ;)

@Jeffrey314159

7 жыл бұрын

"In secrecy things got to rot"

@ConsciousAtoms

7 жыл бұрын

Oh god, not the Soviet flight designations... They are a pain, since they named their craft after what they accomplished, not what they were designed to do. If it failed to launch (which happened to a lot of the early Luna attempts, the Soviets weren't nearly as successful as their named flights suggest) it did not get any name. If they launched, say, a mission to Venus, but the upper stage failed to ignite so it stranded in earth orbit, they called it Sputnik-X or Kosmos-Y instead of the intended Venera-Z. Some time ago I tried to get to grips with this and even though sites like wikipedia nowadays do a good job of untangling the mess it is still very hard to get your head around. Moreover, all missions to a planet or the moon got the same designation. All lunar missions were called Luna-something, but there were quite a number of different spacecraft types involved. And to complicate things even further, often these spacecraft types got upgrades on the fly, so that sometimes the same mission is known under different designations. Also, the same spacecraft bus was used for different things (The Luna E-8 in particular), so that, e.g., the E-8 could be an orbiter, a lander with a rover or a lander with a sample return mission.

@KelseyThornton

7 жыл бұрын

ConsciousAtoms all the more reason for a video :-)

@dogmaticpyrrhonist543

7 жыл бұрын

So, what's Russian for "Hypergolic air-burst 1"?

Love Vintage Space. Thank you Amy!

Great video as always. ❤❤❤

Wow Amy, even though I'm a lot older, and can remember Apollo starting with the funeral of the Apollo 1 astronauts...Thank you for your interest in the space program, and yes, I am proudly from Houston, Texas!

Thanks kid. I've always wondered about this. I look forward to your videos every week. Thanks again.

Oh my god, I've been really confused about this in this past. Now, it all makes sense. Thank you, Amy.

And then there were the BP or Boiler Plate command module mockups that were used to test design aspects of the command module such as drop tests to check out parachute designs and splash down tests and such.

thank you for this, Amy! really interesting as usual! can't wait until you work on your Saturn V again! ❤️

Yes finally I've been wondering this for a very long time thank you so much

There's another "missing" part of the Saturn V program too. First stage - S1, Second stage - S2, Third stage - S4? Huh?!?!?! What happened to S3?

@razzsp

7 жыл бұрын

Probably s3 would be the emergency abort system jettison. Can't proof and not sure though

@Joe-A-Makin

7 жыл бұрын

Originally the Saturn V was to be a 5 stage booster. Over time, various decisions (engineering and financial) were taken which ultimately determined it would be a 3 stage booster with only the first second and fourth stages making it to the launch pad as part of the Saturn V. The Saturn S-1B booster also flew what was essentially an S-IVB as it's second stage (no 2nd or 3rd stage in sight!). It's almost like the Saturn series was a big lego set that they put together in different ways to create different boosters for different payloads!

@saundby

7 жыл бұрын

The S-III was a proposed dual J-2 third stage for Saturn C. There was also an S-V stage. The design for the Saturns was a building block approach while they were figuring out the exact profile that would be used to reach the Moon--Direct Ascent/EOR/LOR. In the end, they decided the S-III wouldn't be necessary, that the S-IV could be upgraded from the quad RL-10 engines to a single J-2 for the S-IVB and the required performance for LOR would be sufficient. Saturn nomenclature is a whole study unto itself--the name Saturn V itself was a sort of political sleight of hand in and of itself. The original plan was that any F-1 based rocket would be called a Nova, ranging from 4 F-1s on up with smaller or single F-1 rockets informally termed as "mini Novas". The Nova name got drug through the mud in a Congress that really didn't want to pay for increases in NASA's budget, so the Novas got renamed as Saturn because that was the "reasonable" booster name that was held up against the "too-expensive Nova" in public discourse.

@BulletproofPastor

7 жыл бұрын

I found another site that answered the question of stage names. It appears the Saturn system included up to five stages with some deleted as unnecessary for the Apollo program. The S-3 was one of them but they kept the S-4 and simply mated it atop the S-2. Calling it S-3 would have caused confusion (not that it's proper name of S-4 wasn't confusing enough.)

@jwilder47

7 жыл бұрын

as if to make it more confusing, the tanks on the Saturn 1/1B first stage were made from surplus redstone rockets.

Thank you for that excellent explanation. I never knew how complicated the Apollo nomenclature was.

It is familiar, as always I watch and listen patiently to anything you present and treasure the moment.

Brilliant... thanks for sharing!

"The behavior of liquid hydrogen in orbit" Amazin that it was a question about it, no wonder they were not sure of human body fluids either. Great job as always. This is the space channel that gives me more surprises, of the great kind. Thanks for all the work.

Yuss your back. And it would be great to see some info about the soviet space program.

Another very interesting and educational video. Thank you Amy.

Great info as always, thanks!!

I've always been fascinated with the Soyuz. I'd love to hear about that. This video with the internal/external designations is great. I didn't know this. Thanks!

Another great video! Always ... always ... always ... new information ... just awesome!!!

Fascinating video you made, very informative space facts!

This is your awesome wheelhouse...really interesting and informative!

I always wondered what was up with those, thanks for the info!

Very well done, Ma'am. Thank you very much!

Hey great video. I always wondered...and tbh still trying to make sense of it! But you are great. 👍🏽

This is fascinating. I love this early space travel material.

Nice bit of history ... thank you. Well presented.

I am VERY interested in learning more about how the Soviets named their missions. Anything to do with the Russian space program is fascinating.

@joshuaplotkin8826

6 жыл бұрын

They Didn't. It was just the number of the mission. They didn't give them names like the Americans. They still don't name their capsules

It is always great to learn more about the soviet space program. It is very hard to come upon information about it. I always appreciate your videos.

I’ve long wondered where those missions went to or if they existed. Thanks for clearing that up.

Great video! thank you!

i saw an older video of this but couldnt find it eanymore, now i know why.

Thank you for this explanation!

love to see video of those early launches!

Geez, you lost me at Apollo... Great vid!

Thanks, I was wondering about this

thanks for the info!!!!

Please do the Soviet nomenclature video!

I've heard that a few of the early Gemini missions missed their landing zone by a few hundred miles due to the fact that the folks with the slide rules stopped taking the earths rotation into consideration from the de-orbit to splashdown. If you're looking for new stuff and haven't already covered this, I would love to know more about that. Thanks.

Thoroughly explained and understandable.

Funny bumper at the beginning followed by some interesting information.

Saw the first SatV Apollo IV launch Nov 67’. Was 6 miles south at the AF hanger C. Broke windows in the hanger. I saw a few launches but nothing like that one.

your videos are so great

Love the show Amy thank you , and I don't mind you redoing some older videos , there always new way's to explain things , and, lol I am trying to get a Lego Saturn V rocket to build soooooo cool

Good Work!

Great. Very informative.

can you do a video on the spacex interplanetary transport systems and what will happen - love your vids☺

I am pretty sure that Apollo 2 and 3 were secret missions to launch Stanley Kubrick to the moon so that he could fake the moon landing on-location.

@bostonseeker

5 жыл бұрын

>:D Actually, the US and the Soviet Union competed to see who could first *fake* a Moon landing. We won, of course, because we had Hollywood. The Soviets just couldn't keep up.

@iamkurgan1126

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

Very interesting!

Hey, Amy! Could you do a video on the "whifferdills" during rendezvous with the Agena Docking Target on Gemini 10. I'm reading Carrying the Fire and I would just like to know more about them. Thanks- Your videos are my favorite!

Well that was simple and straightforward.

Thank you very interesting *thumb-up*

I'd always been curious about the gab between Apollo 1 and Apollo 4. Thanks

Amy, you should also mention how the post-moon landing Apollo missions were named, the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz Test Program flights. Despite using Apollo and Saturn hardware, they didn't get sexy "Apollo-X" names because they weren't supporting lunar exploration.

Congratulations on a great show. Please, please, please, talk about the sponsorships that NASA had during the Apollo days... specifically Tang. I remember collecting the toys (lunar module, command module models).

Great. Thanks.

Yes, please! Absolutely! Plus: Please also make videos on ESA programs (like Ariane), on the development of space flight in China (and their future plans), and private space programs.

Thank's I've always wondered that and have even be asked that.

I’ve decided to post ALL these “lost” Apollo films to my KZread channel. Enjoy -Waffa (CZC admin)

The apollo 2 test was conducted at the same time as apollo 1. Commander gene cernan decided to scrubb the test because "this thing will never make it into orbit". After the fire apollo 2 was dismantled to use as a point of reference for apollo 1. It was later scrapped because of all the problems with the block 1 command module. By the time of the Apollo4 unmanned test all block 1 capsules had been taken off the assembly line and replaced with the much safer block 2 capsules. The only block 1 capsule in existence is apollo1 still in the warehouse it was dismantled in during the investigation. I don't know what happened to apollo3 but she is probably scrapped for being a death trap like apollo 1

@dsny7333

5 жыл бұрын

what block was Apollo 4 ?

You rock!

I'm not sure if you read messages from a video you posted 3 years ago I'll try to post this additionally at a newer video but the Apollo interstage to me is one of the most fascinating pieces of hardware adult the programs but especially Apollo. Everyone knows the image of the interstage Ring being pushed away by the exhaust as the staging is performed but what is contained within that interstage is really good chunk of the brains of the vehicle. A video on how that was developed what was in there (which could actually have an entire book written about it) but that would be a video that I would be looking for and sorry my voice dictation software keeps turning on and off

Clear as mud. :P The russian video sounds great. I love that I have to pay attention to your video's, so many others I can just play in the background.

Hey Amy, I just love your videos. Great to see someone so attractive that is a huge space nerd. I have an idea for a future episode. During the Gemini program, I noticed that on a couple of missions, the astronauts wore a different type of space suit. I know that it flew on Gemini 7. I would love to hear the background on why they had a different type of suit, apart from the other suit they used on the other missions. I always wondered why they elected to have two. Thanks much and keep up the great work.

@jwilder47

7 жыл бұрын

Gemini VII was a long duration mission to test out how well humans could handle a flight time similar to that of a moon mission. The G5C suits worn on that flight were designed to be lighter and easier to remove inside the cramped Gemini capsule. They knew that astronauts on a mission of that duration would probably prefer a shirtsleeve environment.

Just listened to the BBC podcast The Infinite Monkey Cage the "Astronaut Special" episode. Where Charlie Duke told the story of the almost abort on Apollo 16. Would like to hear some more on that or other almost aborts of Apollo flights.

Thanks for that video Amy. Could you do one on the specific differences between the NASA orbiters? I know they are similar but not identical. Love to know the specifics. Thanks

Great Video, Amy! One of your best. I alway wanted to understand this ever since Alan Shepard (Nick Searcy) told the Gus, Ed, and Roger's wives that, "Apollo 204 was the internal designation', in the HBO series 'From the Earth to the Moon.' (Can you do a video about those watches? Apollo guys appear to wear the same watch in every picture)

@bennylofgren3208

7 жыл бұрын

She already has a video on the Omega Speedmaster. Search for vintage space watches on youtube and you'll find it.

@IkeThe9th

7 жыл бұрын

Benny Löfgren Found it - thanks! I thought I'd seen them all.

A video on the escape systems for the astronauts in case of a problem on the pad could be cool? Both US and russian

You had the UK’S Black Arrow launcher mentioned a few times as part of the Saturn V rocket build livestream. You did mention that you had seen a question re: the British space program(me). Any chance of a video about the launch of the Prospero satellite from that launcher please?

Awesomus Maximus

Dear Amy, what does it mean during the launch sequence when the ground control tells the crew "go for throttle up"? That sounds so freaking awesome when they say that!

You just made my head spin like a Jupiter C rotating tub spin stabilizer.

How could you not do a video on the Russian nomenclature?

Thanks for this: interesting, indeed, and the explanations are very helpful. But I am not going to take a test on this ... ;-) :-)

Thanks for this 👍🚀🇳🇿

I always thought it was in honor of the three Apollo 1 crew - almost like Apollos 2 and 3 were missing-man formations. Guess I just made that up.

All of a sudden I like aerospace that much more. And now I'm motivated to do my math homework 😉

Well when you look at the history of Apollo, a lot more missions were planned, but budget cuts led to those getting cut, 2 and 3 were more just test missions.

Do you have anything about "Big Gemini"? I stumbled across parts for it in one of the "real world parts" mods for KSP, but that was my first time ever hearing of such a mission/project.

Flow chart needed! Also, what became of the Apollo 13 LM?

impressive someone could keep all that straight. wee done!

@scottmajor2620

7 жыл бұрын

well done

Yes we want to know more about Russian space stuff

@peterloftus6259

7 жыл бұрын

Some Nobody Yep more USSR space history please

@bogdog999

6 жыл бұрын

Best place to go for that is: www.russianspaceweb.com/

I have a question / topic suggestion: In at least one window of the Command Module, there is a (graduated) scale etched (?) into the glass. I'd like to know what these scales were used for -- and how it was done (to get exact readings, there must have been a fixed "rear sight notch" within the module from where the sightings were taken) ... Do you have any information on that?

WOW! I assume you used a teleprompter for that, if not, my God, that was amazing. either way it was very impressive. Also, l like your hair cut, it suits you well.

Speaking of nomenclature, what about looking into why American space travellers are called astronauts (seeing that it came up in The Right Stuff) and Soviet/Russians are called cosmonauts ? The question only comes up very briefly in "Suddenly, Tomorrow Came: The NASA History of the Johnson Space Center" (p. 23) but was worth a scene in The Right Stuff

@ericstra2793

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Gidden are you sure it's not takeout-naut for the Chinese?

@Woody615

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Gidden, it might be a good video, but an hour later I'd want to see it again.

@allanrichardson1468

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Gidden Didn't General Tso come up with that name? I'm too chicken to ask!

@j.patrickmoore9137

7 жыл бұрын

How about a Cuban in space - a Castronaut?

I'd like to hear more about the Zond 5 mission that launched tortoises and other creatures around the moon. Maybe a general video about animals in space.

Hey Amy, I'm interested in the Soviet rocket which was sitting on the launch pad, all fueled up, and the 2nd stage engines started by accident. The resulting explosion took out many scientists, politicians (well no loss there) and spectators. This occurred early in the 60's and had only been made public in the last decade or so. Would be an interesting video. Also, would be neat if there was a Russian Soyuz Lego model to build....

I'd love to learn more about the soviet nomenclature please!

Hey Amy, question for you or for anyone who might be able to guide me in the right direction. Is there a definitive history of American space exploration from Project Mercury through Project Apollo? Obviously there are books like Moon Shot, The Right Stuff, and Man on the Moon but I was looking for something a little thicker. Anyone have any suggestions?

I would love to hear about the Russian and Soviet missions! So little is known about the internal working of their space program from that time.